Tourists, signs and the city: The semiotics of culture in an urban landscape
, tourisme, culture urbaine, Budapest, semiotics, sémiotique, Metro-Roland Michelle M.
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Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts.<br />
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The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.</div>
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<b>Michelle M. Metro-Rola</b><b>nd </b>is Director of Faculty and Global Program Development in the Haenicke Institute for Global Eduction, Western Michigan University.</div>
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Michelle M. Metro-Roland
Ashgate
October 2011
182
Ouvrage
Urban cultures in (post)colonial central Europe
, culture urbaine, capitalisme, marxisme, ville coloniale, identité, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Varsovie, Lisiak Agata Anna
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centers have redefined their identities in the last two decades. The author suggests that they are both Central European and (post) colonial spaces and that the locations of their (post)coloniality can be found predominantly in communicative and media processes and their results in architecture, film, literature, and new media.<br /> <br /> Agata Anna Lisiak analyzes Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw as (post)colonial cities because their politics, cultures, societies, and economies have been shaped by two centers of power: the Soviet Union as the former colonizer, whose influence remains visible predominantly in architecture, infrastructure, social relations, and mentalities, and the Western culture and the Western and/or global capital as the current colonizer, whose impact extends over virtually all spheres of urban life. The cities discussed are not exclusively postcolonial or solely colonial: they are “in-between” the two predicaments and, hence, are best described as (post)colonial. The (post)colonial and “in-between peripheral” identities and locations of the Central European capitals complement each other, and their analysis provides a relevant perspective on the transformation processes that have been shaping the region after 1989.</div> </div> <b>Agata Anna Lisiak</b> completed her PhD in 2009 in communication and media studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Most recently, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in urban studies at the National Sun Yat-sen University where her research extended to Asian port cities.</div> </div>
Agata Anna Lisiak
Purdue University Press
December 2010
214
Ouvrage
Les politiques de renouvellement urbain des villes d'Europe centrale : Budapest
Budapest, renouvellement urbain, réhabilitation, logement, politique urbaine
<div>Les politiques de renouvellement urbain des villes d'Europe centrale illustrées par la réhabilitation des quartiers existants – La ville de Budapest en Hongrie.</div>
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<b>Présentation par l'EUKN :</b></div>
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Cette étude réunit des connaissances sur les méthodes et les pratiques du renouvellement urbain à Budapest en Hongrie.<br />
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Le rapport final se compose de cinq chapitres :</div>
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Le premier présente le contexte politique et administratif de la transition au niveau national, de la privatisation du logement et de ses conséquences ainsi que la mise en place de nouvelles modalités de financement.</div>
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Le second est consacré à la ville de Budapest : son évolution urbaine, économique et sociale, les caractéristiques actuelles de sa démographie et des mouvements de population, le parc de logements, la politique urbaine, l'organisation municipale et les finances locales.</div>
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Le troisième chapitre analyse les différentes stratégies, réglementations et réalisations relevant du renouvellement urbain.</div>
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Le quatrième retrace l'étude de cas de deux projets de renouvellement urbain du 8ème arrondissement.</div>
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Enfin, le cinquième et dernier chapitre propose une synthèse des enseignements tirés de cette étude.</div>
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Collectif
NC
2009
147
Autre
http://www.eukn.org/France/fr_fr/Biblioth%C3%A8que/Environnement_urbain/Les_politiques_de_renouvellement_urbain_des_villes_d_Europe_centrale_illustr%C3%A9es_par_la_r%C3%A9habilitation_des_quartiers_existants_%E2%80%93_La_ville_de_Budapest_en_Hongrie
Modernity and the cities of the Jews. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (No. 2)
modernity, modernité, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Jewish, juif, histoire urbaine, Venice, Venise, Livorno, Livourne, Trieste, Odessa, Alexandria, Alexandrie, Vienna, Vienne, Budapest, Warsaw, Varsovie, New York, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Minsk, Facchini Cristiana
<div><b>Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini :<br /> </b></div> </div> First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish culture. It tries to connect the perspective of time and the relevance of place in Jewish history, whilst underlining recurrent cultural patterns or significant differences amongst Jewish cultures of different periods and places. Both dimensions are relevant in order to better comprehend the response of Jews to the challenges brought about by the rise and spread of modernity. In doing so, we thought it might be enlightening to perform a sort of cultural pilgrimage through the cities that either are, or have been at some point, of great significance and relevance to the Jews.<br /> <br /> Why cities? Because cities tell stories. Their streets and architecture are like the convolutions of a nautilus shell, a natural history of the living cultures that produced them. If modern European history is inextricably linked to the history of its cities, modern European Jewish history may also be reconstructed through the cities where Jews have dwelt. <br /> <br /> The connection between cities and the Jewish people is deep and well documented. From ancient times, Jews found their way to the most important cities of the day. Even beyond the cities of the ancient Jewish commonwealth (the second Temple period), Jews concentrated themselves in important cultural centers of the Mediterranean world, such as Alexandria and Rome. Their contribution to the history of Western culture is well understood, although work remains to be done on a more diverse cultural geography through the early modern period. Jews disappeared from some cities, leaving feeble traces; others bear witness to their presence through the ages.</div> </div> <b>Contents of the Focus section:</b></div> </div> Cristiana Facchini - Modernity and the cities of the Jews</div> Cristiana Facchini - The city, the Ghetto and two books. Venice and Jewish early modernity</div> Francesca Bregoli - The port of Livorno and its </div> Tullia Catalan - The ambivalence of a port-city. The Jews of Trieste from the 19th to the 20th century</div> Joachim Schlör - Odessity: In search of transnational Odessa (or "Odessa the best city in the world: All about Odessa and a great many jokes")</div> Dario Miccoli - Moving histories. The Jews and modernity in Alexandria, 1881-1919</div> Albert Lichtblau - Ambivalent modernity: The Jewish population in Vienna</div> Konstantin Akinsha - Lunching under the Goya. Jewish collectors in Budapest at the beginning of the twentieth century</div> François Guesnet - Thinking globally, acting locally: Joel Wegmeister and modern Hasidic politics in Warsaw</div> Mark A. Raider - Stephen S. Wise and the urban frontier: American Jewish life in New York and the Pacific Northwest at the dawn of the 20th century</div> Ehud Manor - "A source of satisfaction to all Jews, wherever they may be living". Louis Miller between New York and Tel Aviv, 1911</div> Elissa Bemporad - Issues of gender, Sovietization and modernization in the Jewish metropolis of Minsk</div> Mario Tedeschini Lalli - Descent from paradise: Saul Steinberg's Italian years (1933-1941)</div> </div> <b>Cristiana Facchini </b>is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Sciences, University of Bologna.</div> </div>
NC
Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)
October 2011
Revue
http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/index.php?issue=2
Journal of Urban History - volume 34, n°5
histoire, banlieue, gestion locale, Barcelone, Budapest
<div>La revue américaine "<a target="_blank" href="http://juh.sagepub.com/">Journal of urban history</a>", qui publie les dernières recherches, analyses et discussions à propos de l’histoire des villes et des sociétés urbaines à travers le monde à toutes les périodes de l’histoire humaine, publie son volume 34, n°5 de juillet 200.<br />
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<b> Sommaire :</b></div>
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<li>• The Answer to Suburbia: Playboy's Urban Lifestyle (Elizabeth Fraterrigo)</li>
<li>• Civic Communication in Britain: A Study of the Municipal Journal c. 1893-1910 (John R. Griffiths)</li>
<li>• Reinventing Memories: The Origin and Development of Barcelona's Barri Gòtic, 1880-1950 (Joan Ganau)</li>
<li>• John Merriman: "Cities and Politics in Nineteenth Century France" (Laurent Vidal, Grégory Beriet & Christine Haynes)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: Budapest, Past and Present: GABOR GYANI, Identity and the Urban Experience: Fin-de-Siecle Budapest. (Gabor Vermes)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: Airport History: JANET R. DALY BEDNAREK, America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947. (John R. Breihan)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: INTEGRATING EDUCATION HISTORY AND URBAN HISTORY The Politics of Schools and Cities: JACK DOUGHERTY, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. (Bethany L. Rogers)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: MODERNITY AND THE MIDDLE EAST Cities and Their Citizens: JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. (Kimberly Katz)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: Shaping Southern Urban Development and Social Relations: CHARLES E. CONNERLY, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. (Sivananda Mantri)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: NEW IN OUR EYES Race, Class, and Progress in New South Atlanta: ANDY AMBROSE, Atlanta: An Illustrated History. (Julian C. Chambliss)</li>
<li>• Review Essay: EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED Black-Jewish History in Twentieth-Century America: V. P. FRANKLIN, NANCY L. GRANT, HAROLD M. KLETNICK, AND GENNA RAE MCNEIL, eds., African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century. (Luther Adams)</li>
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Collectif
David R Goldfield
Juillet 2008
167
Revue